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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2015 - 9:57 am
Above: Adam Cross, left, the code enforcement officer for the town of Lexington, and Kim Do, a part-time Lexington resident who helped compose the "Broadband Anthem," at the Broadband Pep Rally on July 18. Photo by Julia Reischel. A boisterous crowd of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 14, 2015 - 11:31 am
Due to a rash of wildfires across the state, including many in the Catskills, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday, May 13 that a ban on residential brush burning will be extended until May 21. The ban, which goes into effect every year for the dry... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 - 5:05 pm
Above: New York State Broadband Program director David Salway, left, talks with Greg Henderson, middle, the owner of the Roxbury Motel, and Angela Liotta, right, the state's Broadband Outreach Director, on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Photo by Julia Reischel.  In... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 - 4:27 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo attended a celebratory rally at Bethel Woods in Sullivan County on Thursday, Dec. 1 to kvell about the state Gaming Facility Location Board's decision to allow a casino to be built on the site of the former Concord Resort Hotel. "A whole... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 - 3:30 pm
Above: A rendering of the Montreign casino. The New York State Gaming Facility Location Board has chosen to allow one developer to build a casino in the Catskills: the Montreign Resort Casino in the Sullivan County town of Thompson. The board also granted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 - 3:01 pm
  A video posted by Mark Ruffalo (@markruffalo) on Dec 12, 2014 at 10:12am PST At a cabinet meeting that was open to the public today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York State Department of Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens and New York Department of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 - 10:16 am
Gov. Andrew Cuomo handed out early Christmas presents on Thursday, Dec. 11 in the form of $709.2 million in economic and community development funding to hundreds of organizations across New York state. Several Catskills organizations, including MTC Cable... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 - 9:49 pm
Update, 10:00 p.m.: According to a statement issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office late Tuesday evening, commercial traffic will be banned from I-84 in New York State as of 7 a.m. on Wednesday. Long tandem vehicles will also be banned from parts of the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 5, 2014 - 11:28 am
On July 2, floodwaters stood two feet deep on Main Street in the Sullivan County village of Jeffersonville. Other spots in the towns of Callicoon and Delaware, including the Villa Roma Resort, were also inundated by flash flooding. But the amount of... Read more
By John Phillip Tappen on Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2014 - 7:01 pm
Sullivan County legislators passed a resolution protesting the New York Secure Ammunition Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act last week, according to the Times Herald-Record. State departments that oversee enforcement of the SAFE Act had said “they plan[ned]... Read more

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